New York Attorney General sues loan servicer over handling of Public Service Loan Forgiveness
MARKETWATCH — The loan servicer handling student-debt forgiveness requests is badly bungling the job and misleading borrowers who deserve a clean slate, New York’s attorney general charged in a lawsuit filed Thursday.Approximately 99% of all Public Service Loan Forgiveness applicants have been rejected and FedLoan’s alleged failures are “a significant contributor to the shockingly high rate…
Read More about New York Attorney General sues loan servicer over handling of Public Service Loan ForgivenessAdvice for applying for Public Service Loan Forgiveness
WAMU 88.5 — The Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program was established under the College Cost Reduction and Access Act of 2007. Since the first borrowers became eligible in 2017, only about 1,200 of the 100,185 applications have been approved. If you are hoping to be approved for PSLF, there are steps you can take…
Read More about Advice for applying for Public Service Loan ForgivenessExperts discuss issues with the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program
THE KOJO NNAMDI SHOW — The Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program was supposed to erase the remaining federal loan balance after 10 years for borrowers who devoted their careers to serving others.
Read More about Experts discuss issues with the Public Service Loan Forgiveness programFormer summer associates leaving large law firms as careers develop
THE NATIONAL JURIST — Derek Muller served as a summer associate with the Big Law firm of Kirkland & Ellis in Chicago in 2006. In a recent posting, “What happens to a summer associate class at a large law firm after a decade?” he noted how he had kept track of the attrition of his fellow associates…
Read More about Former summer associates leaving large law firms as careers developReport: Federal judiciary lacks diversity
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE — As of August, 80% of all federal judges were white and more than 73% were male, a “stunning lack of diversity,” the liberal Center for American Progress said in a document optimistically titled “Building a More Inclusive Federal Judiciary.”
Read More about Report: Federal judiciary lacks diversityAlbany Law Government Law Center releases book to inform U.S. immigration policy
ALBANY LAW SCHOOL — Albany Law School and the New York State Bar Association teamed up to publish a 19-chapter book detailing current immigration law and policy at the local, state, and national levels. The book, Is America Fulfilling Its Promise? Safeguarding the Legal Protections of Immigrants, provides a comprehensive view of immigration enforcement and reform…
Read More about Albany Law Government Law Center releases book to inform U.S. immigration policyAlbany Law dean Alicia Ouellette presents at U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland
ALBANY LAW SCHOOL — Dean Ouellette was invited by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Catalina Devandas Aguilar, to participate in the Expert Group Meeting on bioethics and disability. The group of 16 panelists—many of whom live with a disability themselves—dug deep into those issues over the course of two…
Read More about Albany Law dean Alicia Ouellette presents at U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, SwitzerlandAmerican University Washington College of Law honors professor emeritus Herman Schwartz
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY LAW — On Friday, Sept. 27 American University Washington College of Law Professor Emeritus Herman Schwartz was recognized for his world-renowned legal legacy during “A Global Lawyer: A Symposium Celebrating the Contributions of Herman Schwartz to the Rule of Law.” The symposium was organized by the Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law.
Read More about American University Washington College of Law honors professor emeritus Herman SchwartzArizona State University Law hosts Mexican law professors through partnership
ASU NOW — The Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University recently hosted a group of law professors from Tecnológico de Monterrey, the largest private university in Mexico. The academic visit was part of a three-year grant the law school received from the Merida Initiative, a program of the Department of State-International Narcotics…
Read More about Arizona State University Law hosts Mexican law professors through partnershipUCLA Law receives grant to support Tribal Legal Development Clinic
UCLA LAW — The San Manuel Band of Mission Indians has awarded a grant of more than $1.3 million to UCLA School of Law to help strengthen legal institutions in California and across Indian country through the law school’s Tribal Legal Development Clinic.
Read More about UCLA Law receives grant to support Tribal Legal Development Clinic